It was cool meeting Justin -- he is a very good photographer:
Check out his stuff at http://exposure.evidon.net -- or go straight to his rock climbing pictures at: http://exposure.evidon.net/Rock%20Climbing. You can see more pictures from our day by clicking on Taylors Falls > July 27th, 2008.
After hanging out there we went over to the Big Boy (or is it Peeler's Rock?) area and climbed Big Boy - a super cool V3 that I'd recommend to everybody to try if you are very comfortable at that grade and don't mind getting up off the ground a ways (this problem has sprained ankles before). We also climbed the face to the left of Big Boy. I don't know if it's got a name so I'll just refer to it as Big Boy Left. This ended up being another taylors classic in my opinion that I had not done before. It does have an awful landing but it is pretty easy - especially if you have a long wingspan - V0 probably if you can reach both aretes - but quite a bit harder and headier if you can't. It involves starting with 2 foot smears and a slopey hold and then popping your hands up 2 aretes, followed by a high step to a foot smear and a long stand up to the top jug -- really fun. You can find these boulder problems by continuing up the road past the Cave area and looking for the prominent prow to the right of the road and set back about 20-30 yards. Check out this quick video of Nic on Big Boy followed by me on Big Boy Left:
Taylors Falls - Big Boys from Neil Berget on Vimeo.
We finally ended the day by hanging out for a bit over at Mike's boulder. It sure was a hot and muggy day - but with the right mindset it was definitely worth getting out there. I certainly didn't expect to do a new line - let alone one as high a quality as Big Boy Left.
